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The Therapeutic Experience at South Shore Therapies

Our Goal:

At South Shore Therapies, we share the mission of providing the highest quality services for children with special needs.  We strive to maximize each individual’s potential through implementing a successful combination of intervention strategies in a safe and nurturing environment to encourage positive change.  By working together and supporting clients and their families with empathy and respect we can make a fundamental difference in improving the quality of life for that individual and family. 

The Therapeutic Relationship:

“If a child cannot explore his own potential …the therapist must intervene, aiding, assisting, modifying, and suggesting; bringing out of the child that which he cannot quite bring out by himself.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Jean Ayres

Our therapists utilize principles of neuroscience, development, and play to design therapeutic activities which maximize the child’s ability to perform successfully and independently. Through developing motivating activities and play themes, as well as quickly modifying tasks to the individual’s level of challenge, the therapist guides the child to a higher level of skill and success.  All therapists at SST chose this profession because of their strong love of helping children to become more successful in life.

How We Work Together:

“Coming together is a beginning,
         Keeping together is progress,
                  Working together is success”
                                                                                                                   Henry Ford

Teamwork is essential to the therapeutic process.  Therapy sessions are only a brief moment in the individual’s day, week and life.  To make real changes in developing meaningful occupations, social participation, and skill development, carry over is essential.  Your SST therapist will work with your family to develop a set of goals and objectives to aspire to.  We would like these goals to be meaningful and relevant to the client and their families, and mark functional changes that make life more successful.  In addition, each week we will dedicate part of the therapy session to discussing how things are going outside of SST and making suggestions for accommodations or home programming that will help facilitate performance.  We are always available to speak with other members of the therapeutic or school team to help facilitate progress.

Creating a Therapeutic Environment:

“As an individual masters each new skill his self-confidence increases”
                                                                                                                   Aline Wolf

Our therapy environment is designed to promote an organized state of arousal and encourage skill development.  Once the client is in an optimum place for learning the therapist works very hard to create motivating and fun activities that facilitate independence and mastery of new skills.  The goal is for the client to leave the therapy session in a calm, but empowered state.   As part of the therapeutic team we ask you to reinforce these concepts, by greeting the client calmly and warmly, ready to share their successes.  We will always attempt to share the therapy experience on a level that is understandable to all involved in the conversation and relevant to the meaningful occupations and functional goals we are working towards.